Legal Opinion
State v. Simpson
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided February 23, 1998No. 02S01-9702-CC-00010PublishedCited by 187 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DROWOTA, Justice.
Based on a confidential informant’s tip, police stopped the defendant’s veMcle. A consensual search of her person revealed drugs. The issue in this appeal is whether the tip, as corroborated by independent police work, exMbited sufficient indicia of reliability to satisfy the two-pronged1 constitutional test of reliability and provide reasonable suspicion to justify the investigatory stop. We hold that it did and therefore affirm the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals upholding the trial court’s deMal of the defendant’s motion to suppress.
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2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
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- Whren v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
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3Cited by187 opinions
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